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January 10, 2025
Washougal city manager discusses 2025 priorities
For a relatively small city, Washougal has big dreams, but not enough resources to turn all of those dreams into reality.
For a relatively small city, Washougal has big dreams, but not enough resources to turn all of those dreams into reality.
To East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR) Fire Chief Ed Hartin, serving as a firefighter has been more than just a job. It’s been a way of life and a calling that began when Hartin was a young child growing up in a firehouse with his father.
An 85-year-old Washougal man is facing vehicular homicide charges after allegedly hitting two people with his car outside the Big Foot Inn tavern in Washougal on Sunday, Dec. 22, killing one.
DaShon Stevenson smiled as he cast his gaze east over building rooftops, toward the Columbia River, and, in the distance, Mount Hood, while standing in the center of the rooftop deck on the sixth floor of The Walden, Washougal’s newest residential complex, on an overcast mid-December afternoon.
As a child, Wendi Steinbronn never dreamed about becoming a police officer. Rather, the current Washougal police chief’s true calling was something she found later in life — almost by chance — after working in the high-tech industry.
As an employee at Round Table Pizza in Camas, Washougal High School senior Emily Bishop has learned about the challenges people facing homelessness struggle with on a daily basis.
Camas High School football coach Adam Mathieson was selected as the 2024 Seattle Seahawks’ High School Football Coach of the Year in early December. A few days later, on Dec. 7, Mathieson’s Papermakers saw their hopes of a perfect season dashed in a loss to Sumner High Spartans in the Class 4A state championship game at Husky Stadium in Seattle.
More than one and a half years after voters approved a capital projects and technology levy to help upgrade Washougal school buildings, the Washougal School District is moving forward with several facility improvement projects.
East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR)’s new chief has held firefighting jobs for almost 20 years, but he views himself as a teacher as much as anything else.
Before the first Empty Bowls Camas event in September 2024, event organizer Jamie St. Clair told Nancy Wilson, the director of the Inter-Faith Treasure House in Washougal, that she hoped to raise $2,000 for the nonprofit organization, which provides food assistance to local residents in need.